Athanasios Spyridakos is Professor at Business Administration Department of University of West Attica and the last years serves as Dean of the Faculty of Business, Economical and Social Sciences. He received his PhD in Multicriteria Decision Support Systems from Technical University of Crete and he is a member of Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS). His research interests include multicriteria decision aid, decision support systems, knowledge management, data mining, multivariate data analysis and artificial intelligence. He worked for a long time for IT firms in large scale projects prior to his commitment to higher education and research activities. He is the author of more than 50 papers in journal, chapter books and conferences.

• The Multicriteria Features of Environmental Footprint Assessment Methodology for Refractory Materials in the Circular Economy: Issues, perspectives and new directions.- Fire Disaster Recovery and Resource Allocation Enabled by Firefighters’ Sustainable UAV Technology in Smart Cities.- Resource Management – A Bi-Objective methodological approach for routing in crisis situations.- Urban space quality evaluation using multi-criteria decision analysis-based framework.- Multicriteria Disagregation – Aggregation approach for the evaluation of warm water lakes.- Agricultural water management in the context of Water-Enegy-Land-Food NEXUS.- Recommending open educational resources using weighted linear combination.- User comments as a resource to rank with multiple criteria: The case of TripAdvisor Athens’s restaurants.